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  • The progressive education machine is collapsing. We should let it fall

    Source: Fox News
    by Dr. Kent Ingle

    “The American education establishment is currently having a collective meltdown. If you watch the headlines closely, you can see the panic setting in across the country. This is the unmistakable sound of a broken progressive machine collapsing under the weight of its own arrogance. The radical left has engineered our educational system to prioritize ideological compliance over human formation. Reality is finally catching up with them, and the collapse is starting where the crusade began. The war on merit.” (07/17/26)

    https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/progressive-education-machine-collapsing-let-it-fall

  • An AI Crash Is a Real Possibility

    Source: Persuasion
    by Damon Silvers & Matt Scherer

    “The AI boom is already the largest capital investment project in history, running a price tag greater than the Manhattan Project, Interstate Highway System, and Apollo program combined. Estimates of the total cost of the data center buildout run as high as $7 trillion. The issue is not whether AI will transform our economy and society—maybe it will, maybe it won’t. But the conversation around AI’s long-term impact misses the more urgent question: whether AI companies can increase revenues and profits fast enough to pay their bills.” (07/17/26)

    https://www.persuasion.community/p/an-ai-crash-is-a-real-possibility

  • They’re Launching A New COINTELPRO For The 21st Century

    Source: Caitlin Johnstone
    by Caitlin Johnstone

    “So it seems the United States is looking at a reinvigorated COINTELPRO for the 2020s, this time with police drones and AI-assisted mass surveillance. As Americans become more and more hostile toward US warmongering, more and more fed up with the state of Israel, more and more convinced that their government doesn’t care about them, and more and more discontented with what unbridled capitalism is doing to their bank accounts, their society, and their world, their rulers are responding with the iron fist of tyranny. And what makes all this especially threatening is that you know whatever measures they roll out while the Republicans are running things will remain in place when the Democrats are in power, because as we have discussed here many times before, it is the Democratic Party’s job to prevent leftward movement in the United States.” (07/18/26)

    https://caitlinjohnstone.com.au/2026/07/18/theyre-launching-a-new-cointelpro-for-the-21st-century/

  • Labor Unions Hate Robots — and It’s Stopping Democrats From Delivering on Affordability

    Source: Reason
    by Peter Suderman

    “Democrats have a union problem. They have tied their political fortunes to unions, public and private, in ways that exacerbate intraparty conflict while stymieing both progressive and moderate goals. That’s not just a problem for the party. Democratic deference to unions creates economic hurdles for much of the country—almost everyone who isn’t in a union, and even some people who are—because today’s unions function as roadblocks to the future. To understand the party’s problem, consider that the two most powerful words in Democratic politics in 2026 are abundance and affordability. Both represent rival party factions.” (for publication 08/26)

    https://reason.com/2026/07/18/labor-unions-hate-robots/

  • A Flattering AI Scam

    Source: David Friedman’s Substack
    by David Friedman

    “I receive a flattering email. The sender is very impressed with my work. She runs an elite reading group, would like to include one of my books. I, of course, respond that she is welcome to do so. At the second or third round of the exchange she mentions a small financial contribution by the featured author to help cover the costs of the project. … I think this is the third I have received in the past year. Considered as a scam, it makes sense only if targeting multiple authors, since it does not seem likely to get much money from any single author. Targeting multiple authors requires multiple versions of the emails, since they contain moderately detailed references to the author’s work, hardly likely to be worth the cost of hiring someone to compose them. Unless they are written by an AI.” (07/18/26)

    https://daviddfriedman.substack.com/p/a-flattering-ai-scam

  • The Kids Are All Right

    Source: Common Sense
    by Paul Jacob

    “All is not yet lost in a country where the children rise up as one to evade mandatory age-check barriers to social media. Reclaim the Net reports the finding that, as judged by looking at 408 Australian teens, some 85 percent ‘of Australians aged 12 to 15 were still merrily logging on three months after the ban supposedly cut them off from the world.’ Maybe not merrily. Perhaps only sturdily or insouciantly. Anyway, rightly. Good job, guys. The ban is failing because kids know how to draw a mustache on their faces or borrow somebody else’s login.” (07/17/26)

    https://thisiscommonsense.org/2026/07/17/the-kids-are-all-right/

  • America Is in Trouble and Running Out of Time

    Source: Townhall
    by Les Rubin

    “The numbers are mathematical, not political. Unless the United States begins restoring fiscal discipline, future generations will inherit a nation burdened by debt, weakened by chronic overspending, and headed to a bankruptcy that could be prevented. Washington is run by professional politicians, not statesmen, whose focus is on the next election, not the next generation. They have operated under a simple formula. Promise more benefits, avoid difficult decisions, and borrow the difference.” (07/17/26)

    https://townhall.com/columnists/les-rubin/2026/07/17/america-is-in-trouble-and-running-out-of-time-n2679507

  • Can the government require ID before you use artificial intelligence?

    Source: Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression
    by John Coleman

    “The internet is one of the main places where we read, learn, ask questions, and share ideas. It serves as a library, bookstore, classroom, and town square all at once. For decades, most people have been able to use those online spaces without first proving who they are. That may be changing. Legislatures across the United States are passing laws requiring online platforms and other digital services to determine users’ ages before granting access. … At first glance, these laws seem to ask a simple question: How old are you? But answering it isn’t so simple. Is checking a box enough? Can a company estimate your age from a selfie? Should it rely on information from your device or app store? Or must you verify your age by uploading a government-issued ID? What begins as age assurance can result in identity verification.” (07/17/26)

    https://www.fire.org/news/can-government-require-id-you-use-artificial-intelligence

  • The Case for a Managed US Exit from NATO

    Source: Independent Institute
    by Ivan Eland

    “[I]f Europeans spend more on defense, it doesn’t necessarily mean the United States will cut back its mammoth defense budget. Instead, Trump has outrageously proposed ballooning it by more than 50 percent. In light of this reality, his browbeating of allies on defense spending may seem to relieve allies’ snookering of the United States, but it doesn’t help the United States address its gaping budget deficits and spiraling national debt. A better alternative would be for Trump to announce a gradual U.S. withdrawal from NATO over a two-year period. The European Union now has a GDP about 8.5 times that of its principal rival—a Russia that has been severely weakened by the bloody, drawn-out quagmire against the surprisingly resilient Ukraine. There has never been a better time to pull the plug on a Cold-War-era alliance.” (07/17/26)

    https://www.independent.org/article/2026/07/17/trump-withdraw-nato/

  • Immigrants Build America’s Most Valuable Companies

    Source: The Daily Economy
    by Logan Tantibanchachai

    “Visa holders founded half of today’s Fortune 500 companies and a majority of billion-dollar startups. Current restrictions damage that competitive advantage and choke off future growth.” (07/17/26)

    https://thedailyeconomy.org/article/immigrants-build-americas-most-valuable-companies/

  • America’s Imperial Wars, from Korea to Iran

    Source: Informed Comment
    by Tom Engelhardt

    “[G]ive Donald Trump credit. People deal with him as if he were a unique figure in American history and in some ways, of course, he couldn’t be more so. But not, it turns out, when it comes to American-style war. There, he seems almost boringly part of a story (now more than three-quarters of a century old) of how the seemingly greatest power on Planet Earth in the endless decades after World War II simply couldn’t — no, not ever! — win a war.” (07/17/26)

    https://www.juancole.com/2026/07/americas-imperial-korea.html

  • Emily Feng’s Seditious Material and the new West’s love of censorship

    Source: Libertarian Institute
    by Kym Robinson

    “Hong Kong police have recently arrested book sellers for having copies of Emily Feng’s, Let Only Red Flowers Bloom. Freelance journalists and three others have been arrested related to the book and for the act of selling, ‘seditious material.’ … ‘Seditious Material,’ is the title that sounds less than harmful for many Westerners who may view China as a land known of having less freedoms, where independent thinking and writing, are prohibited or heavily guided. … time and time again we are told that Western values celebrates individual rights. Self ownership, which includes free speech. Transfer those two words, Seditious and Material and press it into those which may suddenly draw an ire of concern for a newly conditioned Western reader, one who may feel freedom of speech has conditions.” (07/17/26)

    https://libertarianinstitute.org/blog/emily-fengs-seditious-material-and-the-new-wests-love-of-censorship/

  • A Brief History of Trump’s Failures to Bring Peace

    Source: The Dispatch
    by Kevin D Williamson

    “Campaigning for the White House in 2024, retired game show host Donald Trump insisted that he would end the Russia-Ukraine war on his first day in office—maybe before. He repeated that boast more than 50 times—it clearly was not a one-off remark. The war rages on, of course, and we have a pretty good idea of who is going to put a stop to that war: the Ukrainians. How are the great peacemaker’s other projects going?” (07/17/26)

    https://thedispatch.com/article/donald-trump-international-peacemaker/

  • Cicero’s Life in the Arena

    Source: Law & Liberty
    by Tyler Syck

    “With the exception of the Caesars, no ancient Roman political figure is as famous as Marcus Tullius Cicero. Like the Caesars, the myth of Cicero has taken on a life of its own: the philosopher-statesman who, until his final breath, withstood the forces of totalitarianism in defense of the republic. Certainly, there is a great deal of truth to this story. Cicero’s literary output is prodigious, and his defense of the Roman republic against Caesarism should remain an example to us all. However, as with most myths, the truth of the man is far richer and far more complicated.” (07/17/26)

    https://lawliberty.org/ciceros-life-in-the-arena/

  • The New American Industrial Revolution Runs on Data Centers

    Source: American Greatness
    by Jordan Schachtel

    “merican technological infrastructure is the building block for our modern lives. Data centers are not some side issue or a fringe zoning dispute; they account for a significant part of the physical foundation of the American economy. They are the functional infrastructure that can put the United States in a position to reindustrialize and onshore our economy, while allowing us to have the tools we need to compete with China. The loudest forces working to stop that buildout fall into exactly two categories: people who are simply misinformed about what these facilities actually do, and people who are being actively used, wittingly or not, to psyop American communities into fighting against their own country’s interests.” (07/17/26)

    https://amgreatness.com/2026/07/17/the-new-american-industrial-revolution-runs-on-data-centers/

  • How California’s Plastic Ban Could Change What Every American Buys

    Source: Foundation for Economic Education
    by Kerry Jackson

    “The Plastic Pollution Prevention and Packaging Producer Responsibility Act, passed and signed in 2022, went into effect on May 1. It demands a lot. By 2032, every shred of single-use packaging and single-use plastic food service ware sold in the state has to be recyclable or compostable. The law covers not just items made and consumed in California, but also those imported from outside the state. Because California is a massive market, many companies don’t produce one package for California and another for the other 49 states. Instead, they use a single design for everyone. That’s why the 17 states and other critics argue that California’s regulations have increasingly become national regulations.” (07/17/26)

    https://fee.org/articles/how-californias-plastic-ban-could-change-what-every-american-buys/

  • Mykhailo Fedorov Ukraine Ukraine’s defense minister walked into Zelensky corruption buzzsaw

    Source: Responsible Statecraft
    by Mark Episkopos

    “Mykhailo Fedorov advanced a successful drone program in part by bucking the patronage system, which, protected by the president, likely led to his sacking.” (07/17/26)

    https://responsiblestatecraft.org/mykhailo-fedorov-ukraine-zelensky/

  • Auberon Herbert and the “Social Entity”

    Source: Free Association
    by Sheldon Richman

    “In his magazine debate over socialism, the late-Victorian individualist Auberon Herbert saw in the presentation of his opponent, J. A. Hobson, ‘an attempt to reduce the individual to nothingness, and on the ruins of the individual to exalt and glorify ‘the social organism.’ … Herbert asked: ‘[Is] there any solid reality in this view of the social entity, or must we treat it as a mere literary creation?’ He opted for the latter because, in fact, it is individuals all the way down.'” (07/17/26)

    https://sheldonrichman.substack.com/p/tgif-auberon-herbert-and-the-social

  • America’s Imperial Wars, from Korea to Iran

    Source: Informed Comment
    by Tom Engelhardt

    “People deal with [Donald Trump] as if he were a unique figure in American history and in some ways, of course, he couldn’t be more so. But not, it turns out, when it comes to American-style war. There, he seems almost boringly part of a story (now more than three-quarters of a century old) of how the seemingly greatest power on Planet Earth in the endless decades after World War II simply couldn’t — no, not ever! — win a war.” (07/17/26)

    https://www.juancole.com/2026/07/americas-imperial-korea.html

  • Politicians Should Stop Hiding Behind the ‘Two-State Solution’ Fantasy

    Source: Antiwar.com
    by Norman Solomon

    “Creation of a Palestinian state next to Israel seemed feasible when President Bill Clinton hosted the signing of the Oslo accords at the White House in September 1993. The goal was reaffirmed in 2011 when 90 percent of the Senate co-sponsored a resolution supporting ‘a two-state solution to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.’ But today, the two-state scenario is far-fetched to the point of delusion if not evasion. For politicians, it has become a box to check. According to data from the American Jewish Congress, every Democrat and most Republicans on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee currently say they support ‘the two-state solution.’ Whatever the rhetoric, ending Israeli control over Palestinians in the territories occupied since 1967 is not on the table.” (07/17/26)

    https://original.antiwar.com/solomon/2026/07/16/politicians-should-stop-hiding-behind-the-two-state-solution-fantasy/